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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 2024 | Sea Form (Atlantic) | 5 | Sotheby's | London | |||
| Jul 21, 2005 | Sea form, Atlantic | Sotheby's | London | ||||
sculpture
206 cm (81.1 in)
bronze
signed Barbara Hepworth , numbered 5/6 , dated 1964 and stamped with the foundry mark Morris Singer FOUNDERS LONDON (on the base)
Acquired by the family of the present owner in 1971 and thence by descent
Their sale, Sotheby"s London, 21 July 2005, lot 110, where acquired by the present owner
Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Barbara Hepworth Retrospective 1935-1965 , 8 May - 18 July, no. 43, illustrated in exh. cat. (another cast)
St. Ives, Penwith Society of Arts Summer Exhibition , August - October 1965, no. 2 of sculpture section, illustrated in exh. cat. (another cast)
Turin, Galleria Civica d"Arte Moderna, Barbara Hepworth , 1965, no. 41, illustrated in exh. cat. (another cast)
Basel, Kunsthalle, Barbara Hepworth , September 1965 - June 1966, no. 33, illustrated (another cast), with tour to Karlsruhe and Essen
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Barbara Hepworth , April - May 1966, no. 17, illustrated in exh. cat. (another cast)
London, Battersea Park, Sculpture in the Open Air , May - September 1966, no. 17, illustrated in exh. cat. (another cast)
London, Gimpel Fils, Barbara Hepworth , 25 May - 20 June 1966, no. 4, illustrated (another cast)
Montreal, Expo "67, The Genius of Britain , Summer 1967 (another cast)
Birmingham, Cannon Hill Park, Outdoor Sculpture , April - June 1967, no. 1 (another cast), with tour to Norwich and Northampton
London, Tate Gallery, Barbara Hepworth , April - May 1968, no. 145 (the present cast)
Edinburgh, Royal Botanic Garden, Barbara Hepworth: Late Works , August - September 1976, no. 2, illustrated in exh. cat. (another cast)
New York, Marlborough Fine Art, Hepworth, Lipchitz, Moore , December 2000 - January 2001, no. 4, illustrated in exh. cat. p. 9 (another cast)
St. Ives, Tate & Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Barbara Hepworth: Centenary , May - October 2003, no. 94, illustrated in exh. cat., p. 134 & 143 (the present cast shown at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park)
Barbara Hepworth & Alan Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: Drawings from a Sculptor"s Landscape , Cory, Adams & Mackay Ltd., London, 1966, illustrated p. 12 (another cast)
Barbara Hepworth, Barbara Hepworth: A Pictorial Autobiography , Adams & Dart, Bath, 1970, p. 103 & 109, pl. 286 & 301, illustrated (another cast)
Alan Bowness (ed.), The Complete Sculpture of Barbara Hepworth 1960-69 , Lund Humphries, London, 1971, no. 362, illustrated pl. 103-4 (another cast)
Penelope Curtis & Alan G. Wilkinson, Barbara Hepworth, A Retrospective , Tate Gallery, London, 1994, pp. 105-6, illustrated (another cast)
Penelope Curtis, St. Ives Artists: Barbara Hepworth , Tate Gallery, London, 1998, illustrated pl. 48 (another cast)
Matthew Gale & Chris Stephens, Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Gallery Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum, St. Ives , Tate Gallery, London, 1999, p. 202
Sophie Bowness (ed.), Barbara Hepworth: Writings and Conversations , Tate Gallery, London, 2015, pp. 233-4
Sophie Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: The Sculptor in the Studio , Tate Gallery, London, 2017, pp. 124 & 128, fig. 123, illustrated 126-7 (another cast)
Property from a Notable Private Collection
Dame Barbara Hepworth
1902 - 1975
Sea Form (Atlantic)
signed Barbara Hepworth , numbered 5/6 , dated 1964 and stamped with the foundry mark Morris Singer FOUNDERS LONDON (on the base)
bronze
height: 206cm.; 81in.
Conceived in 1964, the present work is number 5 from the edition of 6.
This work will be included in the revised catalogue raisonné of Barbara Hepworth"s sculpture being prepared by Dr. Sophie Bowness under the catalogue no. BH 362.
